Excerpt:
Welcome to the Pre-History of Cognitive Science Web--an annoted bibliography of models of human cognition from the Seventeenth through Nineteenth centuries. The bibliography is compiled and maintained by Carl Stahmer, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as part of a larger dissertation project. The list of authors represented and forthcoming is the result of ongoing research into early models of cognition, with a particular emphasis on those thinkers who sought to understand the relationship between the material world, our physical bodies, and abstract thought. Philosophies of mind that do not contain some reflection on or disscusion of the materiality of thought are not represented.
Annotation:
This site provides an annotated bibliography of models of human cognition from the Seventeenth through Nineteenth centuries, that includes a brief chronology and a bibliography. The site focuses on the theories of four men: George Berkeley, Robert Burton, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke while others may be included as the site grows. Each theory is described in some depth with cross-references to the other theories, a useful comparative tool. This site is a spin-off of a Ph.D. dissertation, "Romanticism and Hypertextuality."